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Mr. Hickey served as a longtime executive of Verizon in New Hampshire, and more recently as interim dean of the Manchester campus of the University of New Hampshire. For more than two decades, Mr. Hickey served in a range of leadership positions for Verizon and its telecom predecessors before that, including New England Telephone and Nynex. He served for seven years as president of Verizon New Hampshire and most recently directed the company’s national security policy program in Washington. Before entering the telecommunications industry, Mr. Hickey was director of the state Division of Economic Development and executive director of the Mt. Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Hickey served on the Board of Directors of Citizens Bank from 1999 to 2003. While serving on the Citizens Bank Board he was an active member of the community investment committee.